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r i ■>* * — We j ha! o me' fra desm en in Ashburton who upid{Qs)|sand $»“ art ” of advertising, ! but I ijue|&n wither any of them ever jmanagcd-^mutAnjbther such an artistic recently appearing jin a S& T ellingtffictournal. It is so very tall in I cannot refrain from ashing you to publish it for the edification of your numerous advertising friends ; “ Messrs Dwan and Co. will sell by public auction 40 carcasses of mutton, artistically glaili-lit'an' TScp'erf ‘ pose of human food.- iij each lot.” , T Can *ahy ’of our Ho cal 'knights -of' ? tne lumamercomewithia.A'fiooQy^ihu^awMKzsn

.-vA .vo;i';'s .amsaoltaj;/ Since the castigation I received a-shott time since at the hands of aeorrespondept» of yours, f lhave given? ecclesiastics ularl partaining ,to them n pretty widy ; j in my weekly , jottings,. anft ( mow«. m ’ / mentioning a decided bull ’ perpetrated'by J one of the cloth at a recent entertainment, trust I may do tio violehceßo4h r AleelilifcS i fr of any hyper-aehaitiVa corredpSndent. ;n Jnn,’>; speaking cf our , foir.'isisteicai: (and , the 'tetaperance question, the rev. gentleman Said:: , “ I apn -suwfy -if r T typihion was 'asked, every womay in this ” room would’ ’stand 'up to ' d man;”’’ - ■ If this had been part' of sin afterndihner speech, I should have made some allowance ; but /being ai teetotal.lnfringe e/; v. . forming a supplement,Templar tea ( and bun scuffle—well—one does’nt know what to thinh.,l f>.r, s an

tbaa that of establishinga cremating furnace, -under (be-personal supervision, of course,‘of ofuc. worthy Sergeant of police. ’TIs fortunate for one street in tlio Borough that there are some lynx-eyed residents therein, or Well, it’s too unsavory a subject to pursue farther. :It is astonishing the many ways in which' business 'then, _ in times, of depressforn; seek tor keep. afloat and make both 'ends meet, Some of the methods ore very. commendable .and worthy of all praise;' bn the contrary, are of 1 * very 1 questionable nature. I reihember when business in, one of the now flqurishing tqwns up north was in a very stagnant n wbo waa beset on all sides byjmpat|enp and importunate creditors, hltupqu a pian, Which- was no sooner oonceiyed tban acted upon. Interviewing a merchant with; whom he, had had no prewionsi transactions, Bang ■ obtained a largp quantify ofsugar, at something abovo current rates, bn a three months’ h confectioner, at abqut 30 per cent, below the price agreed upon witW the r merchanV .However,. before a week had 'elapsed Bung , had to seek the shelter'of thb : BankruptcyCourt;ihe whole taSrij&CTWB,/Mtme‘outj and the wily brewer gbl a well-aeserved lecture from,the judge, as well as soma vefy severehandling by wrathful creditors.

‘fShyposn evew business has its ways tricks that are vain,” but it .pever oe&uyfed'to me.until recently that tbqfywaa muph opportunity for the exerciaaqfßharppractice -by an undertaker. ■ I -have heard,; When a boy, of cannibals ogling their captives day by day, and calcujating ihqw long: it would be ere they were sufficiently fed. to be ready for the Oven, But—ye shades of Captain Cook I —cwhb • ever heard of a Sick man being watched and calculations, entered into as to when ihafuturooccupant of a pauper’s shellshould, nqt only give ihis/jfinal gasp, bus Mentally appoint the day upon which the .poor ifellow should be interred ? The calculations, in which it,waa ultimately decided to postpone One eveohm. expectation of another, so as to save shoe leather, ’and, ; perhaps, timber, are too xhtneate fpr ifle to enter., upon. But I aid convinced morq >; than ever, Hr Editor, 'thfitthere are more things transiflringinrthis little.township of Ashburton tßSfcn Sit of in f yqup philosophy.